Criticism

Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez
Seamus Heaney surrounded by books at London’s Royal Society of Literature in March 1995

When Fact-Checking Meant Something

A new novel captures a bygone era in New York journalism
Susan Choi

Andrea Long Chu's Problem with Authority

She built a critical voice on risk and provocation. Who is she speaking to now?
Sam Huber

Vanity Fair’s Heyday

I was once paid six figures to write an article—now what?
Bryan Burrough

Terrence Malick’s Disciples

Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri

Thomas Pynchon Is Angry

In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck

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Criticism

Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Miller Oberman

The Poetry of Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Miller Oberman

Their shared preoccupation with the body
Danielle Chapman
April 1, 2018
pastoral scene with sheep

Ashbery’s Pastoral Art

Echoes of an older age
Giulio J. Pertile
November 1, 2017
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Books

On Claire Messud

Fiction in review
Marta Figlerowicz
November 1, 2017
Detail from cover of Bidart's book; classical statue of Perseus holding Medusa's head.
Books

On Frank Bidart

Poetry in review
Christopher Spaide
November 1, 2017
Exterior view of Metropolitan Opera
Music

The Metropolitan Opera’s Fiftieth Anniversary

Recordings in review
Dewey Faulkner
November 1, 2017

Alice Munro

The short-story writer's prismatic final collection
Jane Mendelsohn
April 1, 2014
Books

Charles Simic

Stephen Yenser
April 1, 2002

The Mask of Art

Edmund White
April 1, 1999